The Ohio drummer whose band was booted from a Big Apple music festival is defending her decision to write a character statement for the Stanford University athlete convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman at a frat party.

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Leslie Rasmussen wrote and then deleted a long explanation of why she submitted a statement on behalf of her childhood friend Brock Turner that was successfully used by his legal team to advocate for a lighter prison sentence.

“I understand that this appeal has now provided an opportunity for people to misconstrue my ideas into a distortion that suggests I sympathize with sex offenses and those who commit them or that I blame the victim involved,” the 20-year-old musician wrote in a statement on her band Good English’s Facebook page, Buzzfeed reported. The page has been since deleted.

“Nothing could be farther from the truth, and I apologize for anything my statement has done to suggest that I don’t feel enormous sympathy for the victim and her suffering,” she added.

She claimed that her real reason for defending her pal, who she described as a “good kid” and “not a monster,” was to highlight the problems with the college booze culture.

“I have had the unique opportunity to observe over 10 years of public American drinking culture and the problems that invariably arise through alcohol misuse,” Rasmussen wrote. “I have watched friends, acquaintances and complete strangers transform before my eyes over the course of sometimes very short periods of time, into people I could barely recognize as a result of alcohol over-consumption.”

She didn’t apologize for defending Turner, who was sentenced to six months in county jail last week, saying that she didn’t think it was an “irresponsible or reckless decision.”

Rasmussen said that since she got wrapped up in the case — which garnered national media attention since Turner’s light sentencing and the subsequent release of his victim’s powerful statement she read in court — she’s personally suffered, too.

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“I am now thrust into the public eye to defend my position on this matter in the court of public opinion,” she wrote. “Now, my choices to defer college to write and play music, to finally introduce 10 years of hard work to a national audience while working consistently and intentionally on my own personal and professional integrity, has led to an uproar of judgement and hatred unleashed on me, my band and my family.”

On Tuesday, the Northside Festival axed Good English’s performance at its three-day event this weekend at Bar Matchless in Brooklyn.

“This was brought to our attention and the band is no longer playing,” festival officials wrote on Facebook.

Good English deleted their Facebook after news circulated about them getting dropped by Northside Festival, but briefly reactivated the account Tuesday night before removing it again.

In Rasmussen’s initial character statement, she wrote that the Jan. 2015 assault by Turner was just “a big misunderstanding.”

“I don’t think it’s fair to base the fate of the next 10-plus years of his life on the decision of a girl who doesn’t remember anything but the amount she drank to press charges against him,” she wrote.